Showing posts with label Bloggers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloggers. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2008

Are We Being Responsible?

I'm not much into politics,but I do follow things that happen around the world.The political scenario in my country have turn for the worst.I thought the last election in March was the biggest thing to happen,but now there are new things unfolding,sadly,it is more about personal attacks rather than a political issue.

What I like to focus about is not one regarding the attacks being made,just read the newspaper or see the news and you will know what is happening.My concern are about bloggers.Bloggers are free to express what is on their mind.My country are not like China where you can be caught and imprisoned for writing certain things about the government,about freedom.We always hear people talking about freedom of speech,but what is actually freedom of speech?

Does freedom of speech mean we can say anything,or for bloggers to write whatever we want to write,even if it is not the truth?Can we write something like calling name to a certain leaders,writing about their families,wife,children?Do we know the truth that give us the right to write something about it or we just write merely on something that we hear,something that was told to us?

They say the media in my country,the newspaper and television are being control by the government,so the stories are pro-government,but they still got licensed to publish their own newspaper and distribute it.No bloggers have ever been caught and send to prison for what they wrote.Doesn't this mean you are free to express yourself?

To what extend do we exercise our right to freely express ourselves?To write something that we doesn't even know the truth behind it can be considered slanderous.Yes..we can be famous because we write about something that other people only dare to talk about while having coffee in some laid back coffeshop among very close acquaintance.People will wait for our latest posting to know what is the latest "news",but is it the truth or just hearsay?

We have responsibility,to ourselves,to our country and our religion.Do we want to be known as the one who created chaos in this little and peaceful country?Do we want to be known as the one who instigate the people to go against the government?Are we writing our blog for our own satisfaction or do we get paid to do it by somebody else?

We can be heroes,we can be champion,but let it be because we do something right,not because we spread rumours,because we spread slander.Be a real champion,fight for the people,not for certain individual who use who ever they can to achieve their dreams.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Almost One Month...

4 more days and it will be this blog 1st month anniversary.Its achievement is some how very surprising,because this is a personal blog,no specific niche,no certain target audience,no certain posting schedule,no certain topics to write about,just what I was thinking at that moment are what this blog is all about.

The visitors are almost 1000,I get an average daily visit of about 35 - 50,the highest among my 3 blogs,7 visit through search engines and about 12 subscribers.Some of you might say this is nothing,but to me it is some thing that I am proud of,since I only use Link Referral and BlogUpp to promote my blog,I'm not actually an active member of Blog Catalog,I only submit this blog to 3 blog directories and lately I'm not very active in the 3 forums I join.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all LR members that have visited this blog,giving their reviews,about 120 of it so far,most of it are very encouraging,some not very good but its OK,Blog Catalog members,my forum members from Blogger Forum,Bloggeries and Blogger Talk,I got 3 people submitting their reviews to Stumbleupon,lots of comments..thank you all,I really appreciate it.This special thanks goes to 3 very wonderful people who have been very supportive to this blog..my girlfriend,Bushra@nyomel..I love you so much,you are always by my side no matter what,mostly in the last 5 difficult years..it is not much easier now but I think we have gather strength from our past experience to see this relationship through,and I always pray to God that one day,hopefully very soon we can achieve our dreams to be together,forever.Sandra from Croatia who always visit this blog,leaving comments and now we have start mailing each other,thanks for your support,your friendship and last but not least,to Nancy,it is wonderful to have other bloggers as friends,even though we never met,we never knew each other before,but through life on the Internet,and mutual understanding of how great this life is,respect for each others interesting view and thoughts,we become closer and supportive for each other.

Blogging is more about exposing our self,our thoughts and our dreams,but it is actually a medium that connect us to others,in ways we never thought could happen before,reaching to people we never knew we could,and gaining respect,friendship and trust by being true to our self,being honest,being open and doing it with lots of love and care.We live in different part of the world,different culture,different religion,different circumstances but here,on the Internet,we live in harmony in one big blogging world,blogging community with one common reason,to let people know about us,and in the process,we learn a lot of things,and get to know a lot of great and wonderful people.

If we all can live this wonderful life in the real world,wouldn't it be nice?No war,no hate,no prejudice..no borders or skin colour or religion separating us,everybody is equal,everybody helping,loving and caring for each other.

Hopefully I and all of you will still be around next year when I can write again to celebrate this blog 1st year anniversary and we will see how much things or the world have changed within that period.Thanks again to all of you,keep on blogging and remember to have respect and love for our fellow bloggers,our brothers and sisters in this World Wide Web.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

About Bloggers.Com And Euro 2008.

If you look at my side bar,you will find a list of blogs I read daily and blogs of my fellow blogger.I have it before,but there are some changes,and I have to thank Blogger for providing this new element for bloggers user.They call it blog list,you can put your own title,choose which blog you want to put there by adding their URL.The best thing about this new element is that you can choose to arrange it according to latest updates,that means newly updated blogs will be on top,and the title of that latest post will also be display..cool isn't it?

Last month they also added a new feature for Bloggers,scheduled posts.It is a long wait,because other platform have already provided this feature enabling bloggers to write a few post,scheduled it for later days,and it will be publish according to the date and time selected.A good feature because some bloggers wants to post regularly,but other commitments can deny them this opportunity,so writing it in advance,and scheduling it to be publish is convenient to bloggers so they won't miss updating their blog regularly.I did this yesterday to my other blog,wrote an article,and schedule it for today because I spend most of the day today away from my PC.Thanks Bloggers for finally making this feature available to us.


Lastly,Euro 2008 starts today,this year edition are jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria.The opening match are between Switzerland and the Czech Republic.I don't actually give this tournament much attention because England are not playing.They fail to qualify and resulting in the sacking of Steve McLaren as coach.They appointed Fabio Capello as their new coach with a target of at least reaching the semifinal stage of the 2010 World Cup which will be held in South Africa.Some Man U players will be representing their countries like Edwin Van De Sar for Holland,Patrice Evra for France and of course,Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal.It is rumored that Ronaldo wanted to join Real Madrid this summer even if he is still contracted to Man U and Man U are reluctant to release him.I actually don't mind if he wants to move to Real,he is a talented and gifted player,but to be a good player,you need more than that.Just let him move to Real,Man U still have other quality players like Rooney,Tevez,Nani and they certainly have the budget to bring in new players.Why keep someone who no longer has an interest in playing for the club.

That is all for now,enjoy trying the new feature for Blogger.com users,may the best team win Euro 2008,my pick is Spain,France and Croatia.Have a good weekend.